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A comment on Blue Moon.

Re:Blue Moon by thrden on Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:17PM (#19872982)
If this is a lander what will they use to deliver the lander to lunar orbit? I'll admit I don't follow this sort of news very closely, but it seems quite exciting.
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Re:Blue Moon by mlindner on Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:41PM (#19873170)
They'll launch this paper lander on their paper rocket (New Glenn). Nothing exciting here because there's no hardware being built yet.
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Re:Blue Moon by nickik on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:02PM (#19879052)
BE-4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyn2gOimRfM

First new staged rocket engine developed in the US since the Space Shuttle (or at least at the same time with the SpaceX Raptor).

They also have gigantic production facility that is already built in Florida. Do you think its just an empty warehouse?

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Re:Blue Moon by DennisP on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:18PM (#19874216)
Considering they plan to fire the engine this summer, they seem to be building something.
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Re:Blue Moon by Rebelgecko on Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:40PM (#19873158)
Presumably their New Glenn rocket
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Re:Blue Moon by zeristor on Thursday May 09, 2019 @07:44PM (#19873637)
They've got New Armstrong pencilled in after New Glenn for taking people to the Moon.

I suppose after that would be New Sagan

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Re:Blue Moon by kermitismyhero on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:01AM (#19874939)
>I suppose after that would be New Sagan

Oh, I don't know. Sounds like that sort of rocket would cost billions and billions of dollars.

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Re:Blue Moon by avmich on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:30PM (#19874278)
New Glenn is quite heavy to carry some payloads to LEO which can later fl to the Moon.

I'd perhaps have New Young after New Armstrong.

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Re:Blue Moon by yellowapple on Thursday May 09, 2019 @11:23PM (#19874793)
Would New Sagan be the Amazon-sponsored lightsail-powered generation ship to Alpha Centauri?
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Re:Blue Moon by zeristor on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:50PM (#19881601)
Amazon Centauri, its been renamed as part of a sponsorship deal
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